Electronic Bite Counter

Hate children? Nitto Kagaku Corp has released the Kami Kami Sensor which counts the number of bites while a child eats to ensure their food is chewed correctly. Retailing for 11,550 yen ($188.95), It beeps every 30 bites and a melody plays every 1000 bites. Perhaps the next generation will come with an add-on to force kids to chew their greens.

While consumer companies were inflicting bad packaging upon us, a new category of tools developed to get the darn things open. These will probably remain on store shelves until the new wave of packaging emerges. Let's have a look at what's out there:The Ultimate Package Opener has a short 2mm...

This holiday season, opening your gifts may be a little easier:[Companies] including Amazon.com, Sony, Microsoft Corp. and Best Buy, have begun to create alternatives to the infuriating plastic "clamshell" packages and cruelly complex twist ties that make products such as electronics and toys almost impossible for mere mortals to open...

You think you've got a tricked out bike? A rack and some panniers are laughably meager compared to some of the homegrown ingenuity found on the streets of India, where bicycles are routinely turned into shops, snack stands, grocery stores, garbage trucks, and just about any other sort of commercial...

Many Core77 regulars are probably familiar with Ponoko, the New Zealand-based mini-manufacturing community that takes user-submitted designs and laser-cuts them into products for sale in its online shop. The shop is several hundred items deep at this point--largely jewelry, though some desktop and flat-pack furniture is in there too--but one...